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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Geode vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

geode.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

1984

1999

2002

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

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